# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十三条 (Article 53)
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- Law: 消費者安全法 (Consumer Safety Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十号
- English title "Consumer Safety Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第五十三条 (Article 53) — address `art-53`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-53
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53
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### 第五十三条
art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53
**第一項** 第八条第四項、第八条の二第三項、第十一条の五、第十一条の十九第一項又は第二十五条第二項の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53/par-1
A person who has divulged confidential information violating Article 8, paragraph (4), Article 8-2, paragraph (3), Article 11-5, Article 11-19, paragraph (1), or Article 25, paragraph (2) is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
machine translation, not official
**第二項** 第十一条の二十二第二項の規定による試験業務の停止の命令に違反したときは、その違反行為をした登録試験機関の役員又は職員は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53/par-2
When an order for suspension of Testing Tasks under Article 11-22, paragraph (2) is violated, the officer or personnel of the Registered Testing Organization who committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-53/par-1: 第八条第四項 → 消費者安全法 第八条第四項 (Article 8, paragraph (4)), art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-4
- art-53/par-1: 第八条の二第三項 → 消費者安全法 第八条の二第三項 (Article 8-2, paragraph (3)), art-8-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-3
- art-53/par-1: 第十一条の五 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の五 (Article 11-5), art-11-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-5
- art-53/par-1: 第十一条の十九第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十九第一項 (Article 11-19, paragraph (1)), art-11-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19/par-1
- art-53/par-1: 第二十五条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-2
- art-53/par-2: 第十一条の二十二第二項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の二十二第二項 (Article 11-22, paragraph (2)), art-11-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-22/par-2
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 消費者安全法 第五十六条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-56/par-1/item-2
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## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費者安全法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000050/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch consumer-safety-act-20261101T192903-001, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01